Learning Environment | Julie Billiart Schools | Helping K-8 students with learning differences in Akron, Lyndhurst, and Westlake, Ohio

A Special Place to Learn

As experts in the field of special education, we understand that students learn best when their differences are understood and accepted, when appropriate accommodations are made available and, most importantly, when their strengths as learners are defined, affirmed, and cultivated. We provide a comprehensive K-8 program that features specialized and personalized attention, small class sizes, highly trained intervention specialists in each classroom, and a whole-child approach to learning. Our core beliefs of respecting differences and building on strengths is vital for students who learn differently.

Learning Environment

Our education model is built on a "one class per grade" concept to ensure a low student to teacher ratio.

Each student's learning style is identified to develop a customized plan to meet their unique needs.

Confidence, self-advocacy, and respect for others are core values incorporated throughout our learning environment and curriculum.

All classrooms provide interactive display board technology and students in grades K-8 use Chromebooks for instruction and homework purposes.

Sensory equipment including alternative seating options, standing desks, and noise-reducing headphones are available to students throughout the learning environments.

open-quote My kids love everything about JB and look forward to going to school every day and seeing their friends and teachers. JB is truly a one of a kind school enriching young lives everyday.

JB Parent

open-quote They have all the resources necessary, specialized to the individual learning of each child, and the heart that goes with it. I don't think we would have stayed in Ohio if it wasn't for JB!

JB Parent

open-quote I don’t think I will ever be able to put into words how grateful I am that you saw my daughter for all that she is today and all that she is yet to become.

Tammie Sommer

open-quote All of the teachers and staff at JB are patient and willing to take the extra time to make sure we, as parents, understand and are comfortable.

JB Parent

open-quote Julie Billiart Schools has helped my child become a better version of himself. The teachers and therapists at JB really know and understand how to reach children who learn differently.

JB Parent

open-quote Julie Billiart Schools gave us hope after our daughter was diagnosed with a learning disability. At JB, she thrived in the small classes, received necessary therapies, and developed the self-confidence to ask for help when she needed it.

JB Parent